Respected Spanish Scholars Present Lecture at TAMIU Monday
Two of the nation's most respected Spanish literature scholars will present a
special lecture Monday evening, April 22 at Texas A&M International
University's Great Room of the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library
at 6:30 p.m. Willard F. King, Professor Emeritus and former
Chair of the Department of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College and
Edmund L. King, present Professor Emeritus and former Chair of
the Department of Romance Languages at Princeton University, will
each offer a lecture. The lecture is free of charge
and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Dr.
Willard King's topic will be 'The Importance of Endings: The
Second Death of Don Quijote.' Dr. Edmund King's topic will be '
Spanish Poetry in English: Examples from the Great Masters.' The
Kings were former professors of TAMIU Associate Professor of Spanish Dr.
Ray Keck. Dr. Willard F. King, originally from Big Spring, Texas,
completed her graduate work at Brown University. Her doctoral
dissertation, Prosa novelistica y academias literarias del S.
XVII was published in 1963 by the Real Academia Espanola.
She has written and lectured widely on Spanish literature,
especially works of the Golden Age. Her recent book on Ruiz
de Alarcon has become the definitive study of Alarcon. In addition to
writing about Spanish literature, Dr. King was co-translator of
Americo Castro's The Spaniards, published by the University of
California in 1971. Her Monday lecture will include a
discussion of how authors bring to conclusion famous works,
including Shakespeare's King Lear and Perez Galdos' Do–a Perfecta.
Dr. Edmund L. King is also a native Texan who was born in Austin.
His graduate work was undertaken at the University of Texas at Austin
and his doctoral dissertation became his first book, Gustavo Adolfo
Becquer: From Painter to Poet. He has authored countless articles
and studies on the 20th century Spanish novelist Miro and is
considered an international authority on all matters related to
Miro's life and literary remains. His Monday lecture will include
reading from his translations into English of famous Spanish
poems, and comment about the special problems of translation
as a poetic and artistic endeavor. As a translator, Professor
King became the first to make available to an English
audience Castro's highly controversial synthesis of Spanish
culture, La realidad historica de Espana. Both Professors King
have served terms as Director of the International Institute in
Madrid, an academy founded by American women hispanists for
American students studying in Spain. For additional information
on the lecture, please contact the Office of Public Affairs
and Information Services at (210) - 326 - 2180.
17 April 1996